Chapter Ten

I hit thirty-one reviews! You guys are fab. Next target 62 because its double 31 maybe you guys could help me out with that because you love me and I love you all. I do I do love you all. Soooo much. (but I am not on the turn)

PS: also this chapter is in past tense instead of present tense sorry but I'm not very good at sticking with present tense I always slip back to past tense without realising I'm sorry don't hate me.

The Doctor stepped backwards and eyed Rose cautiously as she sat straight upright from the bed. She didn't register any other life signs than her ridged position and her ever glowing eyes. He called Jack's name desperately. He didn't know what to do.

Jack came running in, and stopped abruptly when he caught sight of Rose. "Oh my god." He exclaimed and ran to The Doctor's side. "Doc what do we do?"

"I don't know Jack, I really don't know."
Jack was seriously worried when the doctor said that he didn't know. Because The Doctor knew everything. Or so he said, not to inflate his ego anymore but Jack had to admit that The Doctor was smart. But when it came to Rose he seemed to be running out of answers.

"doctor." Rose said, her arms outstretched. The Doctor immediately ran towards her, and her hands grasped at his face. "It's okay Rose, it's me. I'm here. I know what's wrong, and I'm going to make it better. I promise. You just have to let it go for a second Rose, just for a second. Come back to me Rose." He said, a single tear falling down his face as he clutched at her hands. He was pleading, begging with her now.

And then suddenly, as quickly as she came around, bad wolf left Rose the essence of gold slowly dissolving from her eyes-turning them back to her normal brown. "Doctor?" she asked, looking at him in surprise. He immediately pulled her close to him, hugging her tightly as she buried her head into his neck. "Oh Rose I missed you so much." He said

"I missed you too. How long was I out for?" she said, pulling her face back to look at him.

"Too long." He said, planting delicate kisses all around her face. On the tip of her nose, her eye, her forehead, her ear and anywhere and everywhere in-between.

"How long doctor?" she asked again

"Twelve days" he whispered, pressing his forehead against hers.

"Oh doctor. I'm so sorry." Rose said, slightly louder- a few streaky tears running down her face.

"Don't be. I'm just glad your back," he used the pads of his thumbs to wipe her eyes "don't cry precious girl, everything's going to be fine. Baby's fine too, growing just perfect."

"I can see that," she said with a light-hearted chuckle, glancing down at her protruding stomach. It seemed a little bigger than when she had last seen it, which upset her slightly. Those twelve days of development that's she missed out on. She wondered what The Doctor had done without her around. He reached down his face slightly, and kissed her softly and slowly, embracing the feeling of her sharp pink tongue running along the seam of his lips, begging for entrance. So he opened his mouth slightly, letting her in. tongues danced and lips battled and all he was aware of is that it all just felt right, feeling her lips pressed against his and her hands running through his hair, just how he liked it. Suddenly all the pining and the waiting seemed worth it to have this moment back.

After a while he pulled back from the kiss and she smiled at him, arms still wrapped around his neck. He gave her one last light kiss on the nose, and then they both turned around to where Jack was no longer standing.

"Where's Jack gotten to then?" The Doctor said, peering round the room, almost as if he could have been hiding somewhere.

"Jack was here?" Rose asked

"Yeah, just now," The Doctor said, releasing Rose and glancing around, opening the door and checking if he was outside. Rose had a little look around the room, and then caught her eye on a little piece of paper on the floor.

"Here doctor, look at this" she said, handing it to him. The Doctor opened up the folded paper and read aloud:

Dear Doc

I thought I'd skip out, seeing as Rosie's all fine now, and you guys were getting together. Which I didn't mind watching. But still, I have some business to take care of in a bar on Venus. Catch you on the flipside.

Harkness.

"Bastard must have got the TARDIS to fix his vortex manipulator," The Doctor sighed, folding up the paper again and shoving it into his pocket. "Still, he looked after me. He deserves it."

"He looked after you?" Rose asked, sitting down onto the bed where she had slept for the past twelve days.

"Yeah, I was in a bad way without you Rose. I wasn't eating, wasn't sleeping. Jack looked after me."

"I'm so sorry. I should have realised something was wrong and told you about it."

"Hey," The Doctor said, moving to sit next to her on the bed "It wasn't your fault. It would have happened regardless. Okay?" he put his arm around her back and clutched at her waist.

"What actually happened doctor? Why did I sleep, I don't understand?"

The Doctor sighed "Because Rose. You now have three elements of your DNA. Human, obviously. TARDIS, from when you looked into her heart and the TARDIS genes stayed dormant as they weren't reactive with your human genes, and then when you got pregnant Baby gave you timelord DNA, to make your body compatible with him so he could survive and suddenly the three sets of DNA pulled together and bang. Like a chemical explosion inside of you, changing you. Changing you, you're a little bit more Bad Wolf now. But to cope with it you went into a sort of, healing coma. Like me, when I regenerated. Of course I didn't know this until earlier today, thanks to Jack so I was worried sick. But it's okay;" he hugged her closer, and kissed the top of her head "You're here now. That's all that matters"

Rose sniffed and cuddled into him. "I'll never leave you again okay? I promise."

"I'll hold you to that." He chuckled.

oOo

For the following three weeks, Rose and The Doctor had fallen back into their old routine of investigating planets and solving problems. Any other spare time outside the bedroom was spent testing and harnessing Rose's new found abilities.

The first that she discovered was that she had become an empath. She could sense other people's emotions radiating off of them. The first tie it happened, they were walking past a cemetery where a funeral was happening. She could sense such radiating sadness coming from the people inside that she broke down in tears. The Doctor had helped her manage it, and with some help from bad wolf, she had been able to maintain it, and only use it when she wanted too.

Of course there was the matter of her slight telepathy. She couldn't have full blown conversation up there like The Doctor, but she could send and receive sort of imagery, and feeling which were probably helped by the empathy. She could feel The Doctor and her son's presence ever humming in the back of her mind which made her feel complete. Like they truly where a family, together always. The doctor had been teaching her to put up mental shields, in case there was anything she didn't want him or baby to see. Beyond that, virtually no other telepathic creature could enter her mind. Bad wolf had a thick layer of encryption shielding her thoughts and her soul.

The last, advancement that they had discovered so far was Rose's life span. This one was the one most anticipated, and one day Rose found herself sitting up on the table in the med bay anxiously swinging her legs and biting her lip, hearing the whir of the machine that could, in a way, predict her future. Would she be able to watch her child grow up, living the life a timelord should, or would she outlive both him and The Doctor, the love of her life? She wasn't sure which scared her more.

"The results are in," the doctor said, sitting back on his swivel chair only half joking. He turned to the computer screen, and scrunched up his face at the data, putting his glasses on.

"Just tell me doctor, if it's bad news than that's fine. Whatever."

"Well, it seems that your aging has somewhat frozen, so I don't think you'll be getting any grey hair or wrinkles anytime soon."

"Thank God, I don't want to end up like Great Aunt Meredith."

The Doctor visibly shivered "I never liked that woman."

"Me neither, she used to pull my hair" Rose chuckled

The Doctor laughed along with her, and then immediately went serious again. "Right down to business. Judging by your DNA, it seems that not just your soul, but your time stream has been taken over by Bad Wolf. You literally do not have a timeline Rose. No fixed points, not regarding you anyway. That's quite something. Even I have fixed points Rose. There's always the inevitable."

"Except for me?"

He nodded "except for you."

"So I'm never gonna die?"

"That's not quite the case. Physically you can be killed, not that we'd want that. But bad wolf controls your time stream now. When she wants you gone, you are gone. That's it," he snapped his fingers "Out like a light."

Rose sat quiet for a little while, letting the information sink in. "So I'll live as long as you?" she finally asked, after some thought.

"If bad wolf lets you. And that is so fantastic Rose. We can have forever," he said, smiling to himself. Then he looked over at Rose, who was still looking perplexed at the situation "that's if you want to, of course." He added sheepishly. Rose looked up at him, and sighed in adoration at his face, looking confused and a little bit hurt. She jumped off the table, and ran straight into him, giving him a hug as he sat in the office chair. He put his arms around her, and she buried her face in his neck.

"There is nobody I would rather spend my forever with." She whispered.

"I love you. You know that?" he said, pulling back and looking into her eyes.

"You better," she said with a laugh "You're stuck with me now."

"Stuck with you? That's not so bad."

Because it really wasn't. Not one little bit.